For those seeking to understand and engage with our turbulent global moment, The Great Mindshift serves as a primer for the perplexed and a manifesto for the disheartened. It skillfully explains how tenacious 20^th century ideas – especially outmoded economic principles and a constricted view of the meaning of well-lived life – are hobbling the evolution of the mindsets we need for navigating the dangerous 21^st century. Gramsci’s observation that “the old is dying and the new cannot be born” has never been truer, and in Göpel we have a wise midwife to assist us in giving birth to a healthy planetary civilisation.